The famous Chinese painter Qi Baishi

Qi Baishi (January 1, 1864 – September 16, 1957), male, originally known as Chunzhi, Zi Weiqing, Lanting, later renamed Huang, the character endangered, the number Baishi, Baishi Shanweng, Lao Ping, Hungry Sou, the owner of the Borrowing Mountain Yinguan, the old man on the Pingtang, the rich man of the Three Hundred Stone Seals, the ancestral home of Suzhou, Anhui Province, Washishan, born in Xiangtan, Changsha Province, Hunan (now Xiangtan, Hunan), a master of modern Chinese painting and a world cultural celebrity.

In his early years, he worked as a carpenter, then made a living selling paintings, and settled in Beijing after the age of fifty-seven. Good at painting flowers and birds, insects and fish, landscapes, and characters, the pen and ink are majestic and moist, the colors are bright and bright, the shape is concise and vivid, and the artistic conception is thick and simple. The fish, shrimp, insects and crabs are full of fun. On September 16, 1957, Qi Baishi died in Beijing Hospital.

Qi Baishi calligrapher Seal Li, taken from the Qin and Han tablets, the book Rao ancient humble fun, his calligraphy is comparable to Youren, Li Zhimin, Sha Menghai and other strong pen strength, simple humble jinzheng. Seal engraving is a family of its own, good at writing poetry. He was an honorary professor of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and the chairman of the China Artists Association. Representative works include "Frog Sound Ten Miles Out of the Mountain Spring", "Ink Shrimp" and so on. He is the author of "Shiraishi Poetry Grass" and "Self-Description of the Old Man of Shiraishi".